SEEDS OF SUCCESS
to Goondiwindi in Queensland in the north, with Moree as its headquarters. “It’s the richest agricultural land in Australia, for sure,” he says. The farm on which he was raised ran cattle but also planted crops including chickpeas, cereal, legumes and nuts. It’s indicative of the varied uses to which his customers put their land today, including many broadacre operations prepared to invest in machinery that is built to thrive in conditions that can swing from drought to flood and every extreme in between.
A mainstay of Kenway and Clark’s product line throughout most of that time has been K-Line Ag’s range of tillers, rippers, harrows and more. “When they started manufacturing, K-Line Ag really looked at a niche in farming that was all about efficiencies and the ability to be able to get across the country quickly and to do a very good cultivating job,” Peter says. “Reducing the amount of chemical usage is obviously where there’s a major benefit, and what K-Line Ag brought to the industry. So it’s been a natural extension for them.”
Peter Burey, Kenway & Clark
As a young man, Peter Burey departed the family farm between Moree and Goondiwindi to apply for a job as a salesman at local agricultural machinery retailer Kenway and Clark. The 19-year- old could never have dreamed he would one day become the business’s owner and general manager. Or that over 40 years later, Kenway and Clark’s territory would take in a massive slice of rural Australia, stretching from the Victorian border in the south
Peter Burey and his award-winning team.
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